The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 41
Ever since she had been obliged to leave her work and pass her time, she did not know why, in counting cabbages, everything had gone wrong, and she could not get a labourer to stay with her because of her bad temper.
Who acts: Barbaik, everything · What happens: oblige, leave, pass, not know, count, go · To what, where: Barbaik, work, cabbages, labourer
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbaik, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 obliged | advmod |
| 2 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 6 obliged | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 obliged | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 obliged | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 obliged | aux:pass |
| 6 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 leave | mark |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 obliged | advcl |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 work | nmod:poss |
| 10 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pass | cc |
| 12 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 leave | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 time | nmod:poss |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pass | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 obliged | parataxis |
| 20 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 know | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 counting | punct |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 counting | mark |
| 23 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 know | conj |
| 24 | cabbages | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 counting | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gone | punct |
| 26 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 28 gone | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 gone | aux |
| 28 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 cabbages | acl:relcl |
| 29 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 gone | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 get | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 get | cc |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 get | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 get | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 get | advmod |
| 35 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 obliged | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 labourer | det |
| 37 | labourer | labourer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 get | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 stay | mark |
| 39 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 labourer | acl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 stay | obl |
| 42 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 46 temper | case |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 because | fixed |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 temper | nmod:poss |
| 45 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 temper | amod |
| 46 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 get | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | past · perfect · passive | Barbaik | ever | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | Barbaik's work | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pass | infinitive | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | Barbaik | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | count | gerund | Barbaik not said here | cabbages | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Theme | ||||
| 6 | go | past · perfect | everything | cabbages not said here | wrong property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cabbage=Theme | |||
| 7 | not get | could | Barbaik | a labourer | because Barbaik's bad temper | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer labourer=Stimulus | |||
| 8 | stay | to-infinitive | Barbaik not said here | a labourer not said here | with Barbaik | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with her=Location | |||
| 9 | work | Barbaik | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | temper | Barbaik | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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